Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Science, P.O. Box 5003, 1432 Ås, Norway.
Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Science, P.O. Box 5003, 1432 Ås, Norway.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2016 May 15;106(1-2):200-1. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.02.069. Epub 2016 Mar 9.
Discarded plastic is known to be harmful for marine animals through ingestion and entanglement. Here we report the first documentation of Eleonora's falcons providing plastic waste to dependent nestlings. Eleonora's falcons breed colonially on sea cliffs and islets in areas of the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands in which they normally feed their nestlings exclusively with small migratory birds.
废弃塑料通过吞食和缠绕对海洋动物有害是已知的。在这里,我们首次记录了埃莱奥诺拉的游隼向其依赖的雏鸟提供塑料废物。埃莱奥诺拉的游隼在位于地中海和加那利群岛的海崖和岛屿上进行群体繁殖,它们通常只用小型候鸟喂养巢中的雏鸟。